Lagos — THE die is finally cast. For the governorship candidates in all the 36 states of the federation and the political parties, there is no hiding place any longer. Today, the chips settle as eligible Nigerian voters go to the polls to elect 36 governors who will be in the saddle, in the absence of ugly disruptions, till 2011.
Of the lot, only eight of the incumbent governors will be seeking re-election. These are the governors of Borno, Gombe, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Kano, Kwara and Kogi states. The rest would have served out their mandatory two terms on May 29, 2007. Their legacies or lack of them would be what each of them would eternally be remembered for.
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